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Print, soft ground etching, Inn at Buttermere, Fish
Hotel, Buttermere, Cumberland, by William Green, published
by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, and Longman,
Hurst, Rees and Orme, Paternoster Row, London, 1809.
Plate 34 in Seventy Eight Studies from Nature.
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inscription:-
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caption: printed introductory pages to set of prints
Number 34. This is the place where Mary Robinson
(sometimes called the beauty of Buttermere) for some years
made a considerable advantage of public curiosity. She was a
fine girl when fourteen, and a most interesting one at
sixteen; what she was between that age and twenty-four is
not known to the writer; but at the latter period many were
disappointed, and Mary must certainly have been distressed,
when the undiscerning were eager to be informed from
herself, when modestly waiting upon them, how they might
procure a sight of the beauty.
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